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TLCn'S 

VIEWS or OLD PITTSBURGH 







1559 



A Portfolio of tho Past 

Precious with Momorios 



CopyriglU, 1905, by Geo. T. ricmii\g 



PUBLISHED BY 

Geo. T, riemlng (TlenV) 1507 rorbes Street 

1905 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTrfBUEGH. 




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i„u uooies necoKca 
OCT 3 ia«a 






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FOREWORD AND ANNOUNCEMENT. 



SVw^ITHIN the enclosed pages will be found 
some of the Views of Old Pittsburgh, 
which the compiler has been collecting for 
the past five years. Many familiar pictures do not 
appear, some of which undoubtedly deserve a place. 
One box of plates mislaid in" storage was found too 
late for placing in this work in the short time in which 
the work was rearranged after having been cut down 
from a larger paged book. 

An effort was made to obtain official recognition 
for the book from the authorities in charge of the 
celebration, but the committee having the matter in 
hand, in the few minutes they were in session, were 
unanimously in favor of "the other fellow." It is 
apparent that the Pittsburgh of our fathers and even 
of our youth, even the, Pittsburgh of a score of years 
ago, is not the Pittsburgh of to-day. The designer and 
compiler hereof desires to show this generation and 
1 osterity what old Pittsburgh looked like. Many scenes 
will recall bright and sunny days in the erstwhile 
■•Smoky City'-— PITTSBURGH THE FAMOUS. 

To-day the I beams of the Bessemer age pierce 
the sky where once lay in dense masses those clouds 
of smoke which were our trademark and our pride. 
With a single exception, historical landmarks here are 
extinct. We can presei i^e only what has been left in 



picture form. Commerce is without sentiment and 
Progress turns its back on history. 

v-jurely this small collection will appeal to Pitts- 
burghers wherever the}- may be. The price of it 
hardly covers the cost of printing and paper. It is 
put forth now in these sesqui-centennial times as an 
advertisement for a beautiful and much larger edition 
of "Flem's Views of (Jld Pittsburgh," for the library 
table, a subscription work now in preparatii-)n at $10.00 
per volume, which will probably be ready within the 
nex.. twelve months. Correspondence and interviews 
are rec|uested with any interested in s'ach a publica- 
tion, both as to matter and patronage. 

The compiler desires to thank the Historical So- 
ciety of Pennsylvania for the use of the copyright pic- 
ture of Wm. Penn, the original painting having come 
to them from the Penn family. Mr. David Plomer 
Bates has also very kindly permitted the use of the 
Carnegie boys' portraits. Mr. Wm. G. Johnston and 
others have been drawn on and are worthy of mention 
for their kindness. 

In conclusion the undersigned hopes for a cordial 
and remunerative reception by Pittsburgh people for 
what is distinctively a Pittsburgh book. 

GEORGE T. FLEMING, A. M. 

"Flem." 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURGH. 





FLEM'S VIEW'S OF OLD PITTSBTJEGH. 



Barlf CatJ/hs tcrSoicUcrs 



PLAN OF rOET 

DU QUESNE, 

Erected by t]ieTrencli,lT54;, 
aaoynpanTino Capt STOMsMf£rto 

GOT. MORHTS. 





THE FIRST FORT PITT. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURGH. 



TH I RD 



<S-rREE.T 



SEGONIO STRE-ETT 




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PLAN Of Lots irv PITTS BURGH - 1764, 
By Col. John Csvmpb^ll 




-A.. Tort 2)rLq-a.esne. , 

JB. StocTt-CLOie J^ort 17 Jg. 

C. fort rvtt^:Bu,llt 7769-^ 

D. StocTt^BLcie, covering JFre, 



nch^JBarrojcTcs 



PLAN OP THE NEW POET AT PITTSBURGH, NOVEMBER, 1759. This is the second or permanent Port Pitt. 



PliEiMT'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





BLOCK HOUSE, 1840. 



BLOCK HOUSE, 1785. ISAAC CRAIG'S EESIDENGE. 




BLOCK HOUSE, 1832. 





PITTSBURGH POST OFFICE IN COLONIAL TIMES. 




BLOCK HOUSE. 1892. 



AS IT NEVER WAS. 



PLEM'S VirEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEGH. 




BEADDOCK'S FIELD IN 1803. 



FLEil'S VIEWS OF OLD TTTTSBITEGH. 




RIUST I'dOKIIi 



ALLEGHENY COUNTY. 



LOG CHUEOH. First Presbyterian Congregation. 

1785. 




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PITTSBURGH IN 1817. From a Slceteh by Mrs. E. C. Gibson, Wife of James Gibson, Esq., of Philadelphia, 

While on Wedding Trip That Year. 



W. W. WALLACE'S 

French Buhr Mill- Stone Manufactory, ~ 

No. 244, Liberty street, 

Pittsburgh. 





Where are always on hand, French Buhr Mill-Stones, 
and French Buhr Blocks, of best quality. — Also, Bolt- 
ing Cloths, wholesale and retail — and Mill Irons, 
Screws, Screens, &c. 



THE CONESTOGA WAGON. Just Arrived in Pittsburgh. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEG-H. 




^h^£^M£l 



—J 

BLOrK HOUSE. 1880. 





Who Built the Block House. 




ALLEriTTRXT RTVEE TX 18.10. 



THE BLOCK HOUSE IN 1872. 
From a Wood Cut made 'by Jaeob Beeson in John W. Pittoek'a Leader Almanac 
that year. 




COL. WILLIAM CEOGHAN. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 







FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




.STAGE FROM THE WEST ON THE NATIONAL PIKE -ARRIVING I\ WASHINGTON PA 1S40. 




GENERAL PRESLEY NEVILLE'S HOUSE IN 1904. 




Wasbiugton 's Spriug. 




GEANDFATHEE 'S MILL. On Lowry's Run. 



GENEEAL NEVILLE 'S HOUSE; Water and Ferry Sts. About 1800. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUKGII. 




FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUBaH. 




VIEW OP PITTSBUEGH IN 1S40. West end of Sligo and Pittsburgh glass works of MeCully & Co. in riglit foreground — later Lorenz & Wight 

man 's glass works. 




I'lTTSBUKGH IN 1849. Four years after the great fire. Presbyterian Theological Seminary on Seminary, now Monument Hillj North Side. Burned 
6 p. m. January 23, 1854. St. Clair (now 6th St.), Hand (now 9th St.), Canal Aqueduct (near 11th St.), and Mechanic (now 16th St.), 
Bridges spanning the Allegheny. Jones' Ferry Landing at foot of Liberty St. 



PITTSBURGH GAZETT 




FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, ]S45. 



This 



vfal, 



SN tufi TENTH OF APRIL, 19«. 
[ildmity, from ite imnenso and appalling mapiitutle, U very tlitBcuIt to grasp i 

wn iU!ie grei 
^'iiJcr the viu 



all its 

er do.e3 



details, without a long and 

It appear. As when one aa^-oncii a m>?untain the higher he piogresscji tin 

'■'pens to him, so tlio more vvy contemplate thii tranaccudjatdi9a4ter,thr m )r 

its rna;nitiid«. To floe soih aa amoantof woalth atrticli oat of esistence — annihilated in the brief 

-paoe of eight hours, is somethjng t.i he mti^ftd ahoiit end trpaallred up in men's mtiiJsflsa powi-rfuily 

iignificnnt comntentary upon the ingtahilitj of qH things earthly, 'i'he wholo tremendous tragedy, 

with ail its li^ht^ and shaii-a, it3 cfL-cta at t1i2 moment and pijrnianenlly, upon the niin.i>» and fortunes 



J 'f men. is exhuber«nt!y friiitfu! in food for philosophical reflection. 
! hoavy a IjIow is sometliing t.xi, to ha carefully noted, anj verily, until 
I ooald bear s,) much wo would not have beUpv'edj.t. 
] Bulwc do not nish by the forjc of mere l.injiiigc to irn;irosi t'le i 

ifjurod very seriously, or, on the otiicr uatid, that we or£ ruined. 'J 
|lhoje e:itn-me,i. We need and look for uilfroai abrjal.^n I from a 
|wc have sufficient confldentein hninan nature to h.-lieve we shall tc 
I and s.iy w^ cuii do nothiog! Fur frtjin it; vro shall u»c all the nieai 
i ceive all the aid we i-an got, aii'd bclwern the two overcome all the evi 
1 For the information of our .waiters abr.iad who did not see our [ 
; rio-fly sketch the origin and progress of'tbo fire. 
j It cornmanced o,nThurslay exactly ftvf. minutes past "I- M 

Houseof Col. Diohl, Ferry street, near the coiner of Front si. It 



The 



elasticity of Jl/i7?</und( 
jw for ourselves that i 



er, either, that we are noil . _ 
truth hen exactly tietweon 
iii'al Stale govcrnnwnt — ^and Dear Si 
c it. But arc w« to sit-down | Wo impli 
ve Imve and Ihaiikful'ly ri- 1 



TOWj\ MERTI.VC. 

SATriiD.il April 12. ^ 
Purauaut to public nolicc a vciy large meeting 
I of the citizens of the city olPilt.'iurgli and vicin- 
ity asscmWett in the Di.iiuond. 

The meeting was organized by calling his Hon- 
or the .Mayor to the Chair, and appointing, 

J. W. .lac.ksoii, Hon. W. Porter,, Col. W,ii 
Robinson. Vico Piesidents. 

John Wynne, JohnWhillcn, Sccrclariyj_^ 
The Chairman then statod t^^s objopl^oFllie. 
meeting. Col. Robinson then read the following 
letter which was adopted by the ipecling.' 

•■Pittsburgh, Ajiril 12, 1845; i 



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tlie clock in, 
believed 1 



r office, 



:ill 



1 the kv 



in behalf of tbou«.in 
children, in the name 
tile sake of every hum 
of the Ivcart of man, 1 
tioii of an authority vi 
session of the Le;islal 
order th; 



1 behalf of a 
(Is of helple^ 
oftlie Most E 



diti< 



nd fori 



building a Cre in a yard adjoining it, lor the [nirpose of was&nig. 13o th'' cai 
Im ly, the lire commenced wiili abuilding of llu value. Formorelh.in ^vo weeks ju 
I weather had been parching dry — higti winds prevailed every dj\^tind between th^ tveathor, wind and 
jdiist, rhe city ivaa excessively unpleasant. It was in tWs-statcnfiju;^ that thcoT.icsin sound'wl— 
itho infallible warning wliich is never given but when there is a cause lor it;— tl«i Bell of the Third 
iProshylffruin Church wasrtruck. To-ovcry one who looked at the stats' of the-^calher. tlic wind. 
I&e., it vf^ alarming, and it wis hot n'verv ft-wftlinutes until sufficient,cAUse vv'a.s seen that the fc.ir 
! was well-foniidoa. Tlie-6r<> ' 'orisrinate'l iri iho'^ortHrelif a nest of woodori-buildinga, ami fed by the | motalize the legisl 
ilircezi.-, tra ked, Icipei. and fairly licked the Jrv wo-j'd.'"' Aliereiivelopijig the frames, it took across ; ation all otlici 
] tin? Btrset in dilfcreiit directions; biit the most' serious course was to tliB Globe Cotton Factory 
jsite. ;Bvlookirigcarefsl|y at the nnneyed 

I DIAGRAM OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, 

.SHOWING THE- PBOPORTWN., OF THE CITY. THAT IS BVRM 



nrt CU y prostrate people may he laid Ijcfore tlio gei 
*" ^'^ ' * assembly for tlio purpose of consulcriniT sucli 
ous, the g^.^jij^na f„^ ihgj^ rfUcf as we fonfulunlly trust 
:''!. v.-"!" ^^-ill '■..ccivp the pro3i},t and willin- dbscut of the 
Ututed autboritKJKof the Slate."' 



On our iiret^piigc 
most disastrous confljsrati 
ed a large portion (»f the tl. 
hurgh into a heap of muc 
olent emotion \'^'^ H'"'^**^ connajratiuii in t 
the inlerpoi. ^- 

'^ "•" ' I has oct'urred in this couiilry, (o equal r 

he extent of its (.lestruelivcncss in Oict; | 
;uinparativcly, or rather actually, by fa! 
ter cpkiiHity of the two. New York couk 



01 I'itls- ! 

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1 



f bcnrlhatrla, 
ithis 



^ actly right i 



: beli< 



■ public 



On motion of Col. Robinson the cliairman 

pointed tbo foUowiiiL^ persJns a committee to 

nd to take into coiisii 

Mlculated to benefit thc|i 

ITorers: ' suIfeTers 

Hon. Win. Porter, Hon. Richard Biddle. Thop..'| ' To tlii 

Eij., Hon. Benj.Patton, Cob Wm. Rob- j„j. |.,ijj, 



hich Pittsburgh could not; and , 
I loss of property I 
of the former city oil the disss- f 
ired to. Wc may not be ox- 
comparative estimate, for want ' 
moiuoiy fails to furnish; but we I 
a calling the atlciitiou of the '■ 



lis recent calai 
d sympathy, a 

end it would se 



.vith 



id blil 



view tooi- 
clicf to the 




i Clu 



^. It cjmmcucod oil the corner of Ferry and Second; crossed to th' 
ere pan of a sjuare was burnt, as is sllowii by the iliick^ »pacc: (th' 
• black pan ofthe'diagrain, the unburnt by tiie lig.'u part;) about th' 
, it crossed over to. the (Jlobe Factory, and tlireatcncd the SnI Picshy 
led liy extraarjiiijry exertions, and by it, at the least xalf ulalion, a do 



in.son, Thos. Bakewell, Esq., Hi 

H S. iitagraw, Esq. George Millelibergei Thca 

Williams, Esq. 

Thos. Williams Esq., road a dra.ft of a memo- 
rial to the Legialature which was u'ljanimouflly a- 
doptcd. 

On motion. Resolved that the Farmers, Millers, 
and Agricullurists of the surrounding country, 
be requested to send to the Mayor of Pittsburgh, 
such donalioiis ofprovisions or money as they 
may feel disposed iQ^ive towards the aUeviatiou 
ofthesulVerers. 

On motion, Resolved that lllc above committee 
be enabled to appoint sub commitlees to visit them 
to put into execution such measures as may be i 
adjiptcd to carry out the object of the meeting. 1 

The old Court House was then fixed upon as a 
depot at which the Mayor should receive th» tlqi-' 
nations of our fellow-citizens from the country. 

Our Orent Plic-!Votlcos of the Press 
The Phihidolpliia U; S. Gazette, introducing 
the account of our great calamity, uses the fol- 
lowing language : 

'■It is with deepcommisscration for the individ- 
ual sulTcrer.s, and sympathy with the community, 
that we, lliis morning, record a most cvtensive 
and dostruclive fire in the city of Pittsburgh. — 
Wc give such particulars as we have now; lliey 
arc not satisfactoiy to thou.sanils who are asking 



; fac 



in unnecessary to make I 
vorof Ihe cause ofhu-j 
of the case constitute 



aftc: 



idual suffcri 



to show that the Westci 



, but the 



suffici 



Si|U.i 



rcsscd diaganally across i)ie squ:;rc bounded by Ferry, Tliird Marki 
'and about equally as fast up the entire square imuiulod by Fcrry.Becond, Markc 
.-* Iter cro.^sing Market St. ite.xteiKlcd 00 tUe'crve side down to \S'ater street, and tlie other across 
■ :'r jin Third to Foiirtb,just beiii,n|4 our office. It was then four and a half 8<iuar,-s broad, and to the' 
.nd swept every tiling up to Graiil's IMl and the Canal. Tlie latter is the while .sp.ice just above 
Hiss street, but not named in the diagrai,-!, llfio it skipped over a number of frame and other 
buildings, a.s'is iihowu m tliO cut,, and re-comyienc(Jd, devouring everything clear tip to the top of 
Keiiiingt.iii~iii the Diagr'jm.'thislatter place is named ';Pipe town." 

Nothing waj spared— very little' was saved. The progress of the fire as it danced aniilci^KiJ^v^l' 

f from square "to squ.are. w'ai atffGtly' 
the Monongaliela 



Emporium of Poiinsyl- 

vania has experienced a visitation of most awful 

niomonf. Most heartily do we grieve folr'oti'r 

fricrhl* there; and we sliaro with every Pliikidel- 

,1 Second street?.! JP'""" "'>" »e h"''": seen in this grief. Foi a 



an appeal of irresistablc eloiiueiice, which wc trust 
j will be responded to by every city in the Union, 
and every section in the countiy. That it will 
not be made in vain hcie vvelcd assured, not ou-, 
ly hecausc of the proverbially generous cliaraclvrJ 
' o'f this community, but because also of the ex-"; 
jl ceedingly deep impression" which the awful oc-' ' 
I currcnce has already produced. From the pro- ■ 

I mutgation of the first ^iirno'r relative to it, anxie- 

II ty grww and increased so much that wc deemed 
ii if iieccssarv and proper to give to the public, in j 
i an extra sbccl,such information as had reached; 
I us, and from the evidences of sympathy with the! 
; sull'crcrs, cxhibitad by the luiinbers who thronged ' 
I our oflicc, it scorned not difficult to infer action in 
'. .accordance with the spirit made manifest. It is] 

therefore to be jiromptly taken here, and perhaps i 
it would he as 'Veil to suggest at once the rer-om-l 
mendation by the Mayor, of a general meeting of 
the citizens, at whicli ward committees of appeal j 
and collection could he appoiiilcd, and any other I 
measures adopted tliat might be deemed proper, b 
We should be glad to see Baltimore Ukc lllcl 
initiative in ^his mtitter, and set 'a good example j 
to her sister cities. Indeed her inllmatc business 
relations witli Ihc-afifiiitRd, the -mined cily, havo| 
in Ihcin sufficient motives, .ipalt from the justl 
claims of suffering humanily, to incfucc prompt] 
action in tlic way of relief .\iid the same may j 
be said of nearly all our principal cilice, and of 
of the country 



'great a 



1 f.rked 




It of property destroyed, there can be 
jiio coinpciisation, Lut in patient resignation, and 
jrenewed industry. The talents, and the natural 
: means lliat made Pittsburgh what she was on 
Thursday morning, can restore to her all the 
wc.allh she has lost. But there are individuals 
' that must bo jirostrate. There are- some fami- 
. lios, perhaps — noy, there may be many, for wc 
'.arc not acquainted with the localities — who arc 
made destitute, while the liberal hands towards 
.which they would conlidciillv and satisfactorily 
jhavc looked in ordinary calamities, are now made 

_a.^— 1'^ , ^ ^ ■■i» Mi....>,i J! empty by Ihc-samc calamity that produced tbdir 

5i;;Ua^t|tvf,.l"rr peculiarly gralilyiug. the'«ntife Cohgi^ \r-"'''""°"" ■ "'1'"='' 'f -,"'? ?"°' "" '^,' "° 
, . , , Ijuimaldcleialion ULllfwau^Tijiiakijionizcd siuU "'''"''"'^y tn-iaying that Philadelphia is ready to 






II jgration slapped for want of food finally. We have sa:(l so i 



a fro! 



id of 



plac*," aaid he. Thought wc, you an 
get alo,7g-^m.iy thry all broalc 5ulf i 
way. 

03''Uorlng the great fi.'o in New 
ABTUt'it Tapoan made a contrac^ior re-bt 
his store Icfore it was burnt to thrf'.groufid, 
en'cirgv w^ think, will be imitated _ by lonlo 



Legislal 



iby 



"help. 



and 



-ill 



tbodv 



oc iipan to licnd into th: 

the samo king a change of oiglit vales in the l.'nitej Sutes 
Hooss of K?jfe.seutaUv4';- Tuu:^"* change 

j t!iat rnri^ have a very important bearing on tlic 

York, Mr. i iiitcrestsof t!ie whale;Cou;itry, an! at any r.ila 
arnishes very gratifying evidence of the atcr'n 
on*yatis!n of old "Sleady Habits."' 

The following are tha returns of the vote for 
i.w.-rnor so far na tiler have reached u,<;_ 



all her accustnmed lil«-rality, to n 

lliosc iminediatc wants that press thus boa" 

The same paper, in another place, has 1 

marks following. We thank brother Ciia: 

on the behalf of our citizens, for his kind ! 

I PirrSBUKGlI FIRE. 

Wo give in another part of this moriiin 
per, alftilB parliViilars that wo could galbo 



THE PRESBVTERV OF OHIO. 



adopted by the Prosbyteri 
ju.st closed. They breath 



of Ohioi at ita sessioii 
; a jiroper spirit, anl! 



iiy pic 



heart. 



H7,c, 



flu 



rable Providence of Gm!, 
1 the heart n( this com-, 
^titnlca part, haSTdnrini: 
ted by one of the most 
known to the history of 
i, it becomes us to regard 



the city of Fills 
muiiitv, ofwhicl 
the last week, 1 
desolating confli 
our country; am 

this occurrence wilh special allciition, as it h: 
fallen out at our own doors and most dcepi 
corns us, and those with whom as fellow-citizens 
and fellow-christiansvve are most intimately 
nectod; and whereas, Bur meeting at this time af- 
fords a suitable opportunity to give an cxpressiou 
of our rirws and feelings in reference to this' 
most diatrcssing visitation; therefore, 

1. Rcsohxt/, That this Presbytery regard with 
deep sensibility the solemn ami afHicliiig I'rovi- 
deiicc by wliich so much of the wealth and so 
many of the homes and comforts of their fellow- 

" citizens have been swept away, and some valua- 
' hie lives lost, and they desire hereby to express 
their most afTectionate sympathy with the, suffer- 
ing community on the occasion. 

2. Rrsiilvrd, 'J'hat it bocoi^es alL and csDOciol. 



FLBM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




NELSON'S, OR SMOKY ISLAND. 




BIRMINGHAM AND UKMSBY FARM. 1830. 





MAGAZINE OF FORT PITT. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PTTTSBTTRGH. 




BEADDOCK b FIELDS IN 1803 Kenii-s w ood Park Across the Ruer on Hill 




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FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBTJRG-H. 





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FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLi) PITTSBUEaH. 




Dr. Felix Brunot, Prieud of 
LaFavette. 




James Brown, Pioneer Mer- 
ehaut, in His Ninety- 
second Year. 




Gen. .ianics O 'ilav; 




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EXI'().S1T[I)X. HiiriUMl :\Inv,-li Id. litill. 





TWO BEICK HOUSES. West Side of Perry Street, 

Between Second and Third Avenues. Built from 

Brick from Fort Pitt. Bate of Picture, 1888. 



COL. WILLIAM BtTTLEE'S HOUSE. Penn and Mar- 
■bury Streets (now Third Street). 



FLEiM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURGH. 




John W. Haney, Drayman. 



Dennis Shanaban, Drayman. 



RELIANCE PORTABLE BOAT COMPANY. 



Line of Iron Boats, 

m 

For the Transportation of Goods be- 
1/ween Philadelphia tSf Pittsburgh. 

This improvement secures to Merchants important advanta- 
ges, as goods placed in tire Boats at one point, are never remo- 
ved until tliey reacli tlie warehouse at the other. Thus dispen- 
sing with the risk and d'clay of transhipment at three different 
points on the route. Careful and experienced Captains and 
crews are employed, who occompany the boats the whole dis- 
tance. 

The Boats are built in sections, which are seperated on their 
arrival at the Portage and Columbia Rail Roads, transferred 
from the water upon Cars to the road, and continue their course 
by the agency of steam power. 

Owing to the peculiar construction of the Boats, the risk of 
damage to goods is but trifling, as it is impossible to injure 
more than one section at any one time; and their light draught 
enables them to perform their trips in from three to four days 
less than by any other mode. 

The company solicit a continuance of the increasing patron- 
age they have experienced for the past two years, and their 
friends may depend upon their business being done upon as fair 
and liberal terms as by any other line. 

Goods consigned to either of the following houses will be 
despatched without delay, and all freights and charges paid 
when required. 




FOOT BEIDGE OVER THE CANAL. At Liberty, Opposite Washington 

Street. Peun Street in Rear. Washington Hotel at Left. 

Fowler's Exchange (Still Standing) at Eleventh and Penn. 






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BRADDOCK, EUG Vlv iilOMbON STEFL WORKS, 1876 




FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




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Richard Edwards, Early Insurance Agent 



James G. Weldon, of Weldon & KeUy. 



EOBEBT J. STONEY, SE., 
Banker. 



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IN VICINITY OF PRNN AVENUE AND SEVENTEENTH ,->T i; I : !:r IX 1S76. 





THE BEAVEK STAGE. Crossing Old Bridge Near Economy. 



ALEXANDER H. MILLER ESQ. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUBGH. 



-^0. 77 MARKET STREET, 

JOSlra HOME & Co. 

DEALERS IN 




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FLEiM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




WOOD AND SIXTH STREETS. Second Edifice of the First Presby- 
terian Congregation. Erected 1803. Torn down 18.51. 



( U\1'H. I ir.'-I PI,1■^^^ YTIMM \\ I O^fGnrGATION 

Tom Hull Mil W IN 1 1 \[ I 1 i\ ^ 1903 





\() ii7 riFTH AVENUE Burned November 18, 1877 
NoTv Newell 's Hotel. 



THIRD EDIFICE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN OONGKEGATION. 

Erected 1851. Torn down 1903. 




FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH, 



PASTORS FIEST PEESBYTERIAN CHUEOH. 

Top— Rev. Francis Herron, D.D., 1811-1851. Rev. Wm. 11. Paxton, D.D., 

1851-1865. Lower— Rev. Sylvester P. Scovel, D.D., 1866-1883. 

Rev. George T. Purves, D.D., 1886-1892. 




WOOD STREET AND VIRGIN ALLEY BEFORE 19U2. 




GERMANIA BANK, AT WOOD STREET AND NEWSPAPER PLANT IN FIFTH AVENUE, 1876. 
DIAMOND ALLEY, Burned March 13, 1899 "White House" at left. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD T>iTTSBtTEGH. 



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Ansight Des Von Penn^s Erben 1787.Gesghenkten Platzes Mit Oem Versammlungshaus 



VIEW OF PENN'S HEIRS' GRANT, 1787, WITH THE MEETING HOUSE, Sixth and Smithfield, German 

Evangelical Congregation. 




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Ansicht Der Zweiten Kirche Mit Pfarrhaus Und Todtenhof 



VIEW OP THE SECOND CHURCH, WITH THE PARSONAGE AND GRAVEYARD. Built, 1814-1815; Torn 
Down 1832. Parsonage Built 1819; Torn Down, 1854. 



FLEiM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURGH. 




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DRITTE KIRCHE ERBAUT 1833.ABGERISSEN 1875. 



THIRD CHURCH BUILT 1833. Torn Down 187.5. 




Ansicht DerVierten(Jetzigen) KiRCHE Erbaut 1875=77 



VIEW OF THE FOURTH (PRESENT) CHURCH. Built 1875-1877. 
Steeple Since Taken Down. 





AT FOURTH AND WOOD STREET. Lafayette Hall at left— 1890. 
Albree's Old Shoe Store was at right corner. 



MUNICIPAL HALL IN 1876. Pittsburgh and Bir- 
mingham Street Car. Old Postofifice at Left. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 



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Idr the relief ©f sickrand ^tfouiided Soldicaca 



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HiB Excellency A. LINCOLN. 
Gov. CURTrN. 
Gov. BROCGH. 



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HONORARY MEMBERS. 

Ho». E. M. STANTON. 
" S. P. CHASE. 
•' WM. WILKINS. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



LiBHT. Ges. D. S. grant. 
Major Gen. B. F. BDTLER. 
'■ J. S. NEGLET. 
" " F. J. HEERON. 



G. ^J. H. SHOEJTBERGER ^ CO. 

IRON, NAIL, AND STEEL MANUFACTURERS, 

JUNIATA IRON WORKS, 

Northern Liberties of Pittsburgh, 
Warehouse No. 4 Porter's Row, Wood street, 

Geo. K. Shoenberger, f PITTSBURGH. 

J. H. Shoenberger, > 

E. F. Shoenberger. ) [0(5= See Statistics.] 



DO YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY? 

IP SO, RALLY FOR HER DEPKNSBI 



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T«v C»ZMUj imnis v«or senice. Ctmt Urwaii, iktm, «iih 
wUlisK haads aad Ware kearts, t* ensk «■( (rcaseil 

A FlSriS OPPOSfifTUBriTT 

Is now offered to persons desiring to enlist for three 
years or daring the war, by the 




Now in cnmp, near PittsBurgb, who require a few mere 
good nclive men to fill up liieir ranbi to ttie complement 
of 101 . This Company is attached to the 

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GOL nnUM PLTZ'S RBGMENT. 

PerGons wishing to Join will please call immediately tit 

Ko. ®1 MTood Street. 

VJIKEU LAFAYETTE HALL, PITTSBCBSB. 



D. M ARMOR, Capt 

A WAE TIME HANDBILL. 





OLD COURT HOUSE. 1876. 



LAFAYETTE HALL. Wood St. below 4th Ave., where Republican Party was formed, 1856. 



FLEiM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, THOMAS A. SCOTT. On Official Stationery, 1858. 



T THE DUQUESNE GRAYS' BALL. February 22, 1860, 




SCENE ON riFTH STREET (now Avenue), 1859. Roger's 

Picture Galleries. Odd Fellows' Hall Hater Concert 

Hall and Avenue Theater). 




FIFTH AVENUE AND WOOD STREET. 1880. 



FLECM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBXJEGH. 



MASONIC REGISTER. 

IPittskrgI lobg^s mmhk at Pasonit fall, Jfiftfj Stnd, 

BETWEEN WOOD AND SMITHEIELD. 

3.IIegI]tna Jobgts assemHe at Pasonit |iall M^itx Street, 

NEAR FEDERAL. 

DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER 

FOE COUNTIES OF 

5i^0. t/. TF. HAIL MAN, house East Liberty, place of business 

121 Water Street, Pittsburgh. 

DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND HIGH PRIEST 

FOR COUNTIES OF 

COJyfP. ^. M. POLLOCK, office & house, 91 Wylie st. 



Cash for Wool. 



LODGE No. 46, PITTSBUKCtH, LAST WEDNESDAY. 
Bro. James Rhoads, w. M. 

Wm. G. Algeo, 3. w. 
B. K. Harbours, J. w. 

David Fitzimmons, Treasurer, 
Thomas W. Wright, Secretary. 
Past Masters— Jas. S. Hoon, A. M. Pollock, Wm. 
Noble, John Fox, C. F. Jackson, John Birmingham, 
James Khoads. 

ST. JOHN'S LODGE, No. 219. 
Meets at Pittsburgh, Second Thursday. 
Bro. James B. D. Meeda, w. m. 
H. G. Moreland, 8. w. 
Samuel M. Wickersham, J. w. 

James Shidle, Treasurer, 
Isaac Whittier, Secretary. 
Past Masters— James Shidle, Thomas Davage, James 
King, John Evtans. 

FEANKLIN LODGE, No. 221. 
Held at Pittsburgh, First Thursday. 
Bro. Algernon S. Bell, w. M. 
John. H. Bailey, 8. w. 
Thomas Palmer, J. w. 

Charles H. Paulson, Treasurer, 
John P. Henderson, Secretary. 
Past Masters— Wm. W. Wilson, Jas. W. Hailman. 
Ferdinand E. Volz, Albert Culbertson, William J. Ander- 



SOLOMON'S LODGE, No. '231. 
Meets at Pittsburgh, Ist and 3d Fridays 
Bro. F. G. Schenck, w. H. 

Charles Loeffler, s. w. 
Frederic Hartman, J. w. 

R. Seidle, Treasurer, 
C. Olenhausen, Secretary. 
Past Masters — Aug. Fuller, J. M. Scott. 



MILLNOE LODGE, No. 287. 
Held at Pittsburgh, Third Tuesday. 
Bro. Andrew H. English, w. M. 
Wilson McCandleas, 8. w. 
BaTid C. Kemmerer, J. w. 

James Herdman, Treasurer, 
Geter,C. Shidle, Secretary. 
Past Mabtbis — Alex. Tindle, James Herdman. 



ZEEUBBABEL H. E. A. CHAPTER, No. IBS. 

Meets at Pittsburgh, First Tuesday. 
Comp. A. M. Pollock, High Priest, 
Thomas Davago King, 
John M. Scott, Scribe, 

J. R. Weldin, Treasurer, 
Thomas W. Wright, Secretary. 
Past Hiqh Prjestb — James S. Hoon, Alex. Tindle, 
.. M. Pollock. 

ALLEGHENY LODGE, No. 223. 
Held at Allegheny City, Allegheny county. 
Second Wednesday. 
Bro. Jacob Stickrath, w. M. 
Alfred Slack, s. w. 
Joseph Brown, J. w. 

.Arthur Hobson Treasurer, 

James A. SholeSj Secretary. 

Past Masters — J. Stickrath, Nathan Graham. 

JEFFERSON LODGE, No. 288. 
Held at Allegheny City, Allegheny county, 
First and Third Wednesdays, 
Bro. Agustus Hartje, w. M. 
Wm. Bader, s. w. 
Henry Gerwig, J. w. 

Christian Dallenbacli, Treasurer, 
Edward Getting, Secretary. 
Past Master — Henry Anschutz. 




The subscriber will pay half cash for 
clean wool, delivered at his works in Fair 
lield tp, Westmoreland co — or he will ex- 
change his make of goods at wholesale 
price for wool. 

He has on hands an excellent assort- 
ment of goods, consisting in part of 

DRY GOODS. 

groceries, tmma/re^ 

Hardware; Qdeensware; 
Shoes, Hats, "Bonnets, ■&,c. 

Ail which he will dispose of on as gooil 
tefms as they can be had elsewhere. Fish, 
salt, Nails and many other heavy articles 
sold at a trifling'advance over cost and car 
riage. 

Persons wishing to have their wooit 
manufactured, can have it done in the best 
manner, as he is prepared with an addition- 
al set of machinery for working fine wool. 
He has reduced his prices, below what 
work of (he same kind is done for at any 
other establishment in the west. This he 
is enabled to do in consequence of the good 
quality and increase of his jnachinery, — 
He has in his employ the best workmen, 
and warrants all" work to be tvell done. 

He will make Satinetts for promp pay 
at 40 cents per yard. Cloth, Blankets, 
flannels, &c. at cDrresponding prices.— 
Wool carded for cash at 4 cents per lb. 

Any quantity of Hard soap and lard ta- 
ken in payment for work or Goods. 
Ei^" The highest price paid in Cash for 
any quantity of Flaxseed, during the en- 
suing season. JOHN COVODE. 

Covodesville, may 19, 1846. 

"Uncle Jolm" Sells Cheap. 




FIRST BEOWN CHAPEL. Squirrel Hill. 



NEW IRON FRONT BLOCK ON FIFTH STREET 

(AVENUE), 1859. Now Site of Allegheny 

National Bank. 



PLEM'S VIEWS OE OLD PITTSBUE&H. 



ODD FELLOWS REGISTER, 

lo't Ii|i^5 Si^iHci of ^eo^^ljlb^i)^. 

Owing to some informality in the election, this district is without a District 
Deputy Grand Master, consequently no name can be given — neither are the Lodge 
Officers be given, as the elections will take place in a few days after the issue of 
this book, and' a large proportion of those now holding office will be changed. 



PITTSBUEGH. 

Mechanic's No. 9, , meets Thursday 

Odd Fellows Hall, Odeon Building, Fourth Street. 

Western Star, No, 24, meets Wednesday 

Odeon Hall. 

Dugues7ie No. 32, meets Thursday 

Penii near Canal Bi'idge. 

Wm. Tell, No. 45, meets Monday 

Fifth Street, between Grant and Wylie. 

Allegkeny, No. 49 meets Thursday 

Fifth street, between Grant and Wylie Street, 

Gamer, No. 64, Welsh, meets Saturday 

Fifth Street, between Grant and Wylie Street. 

Iron City, No. 182, meets Monday 

Odd Fellows Hall Odeon Building, Fourth St, 

Angerona, No. 289, meets Wednesday 

Washington Hall, Wood btSth & Virgin ay, 

Pittsburgh, No. 336, meet Tuesday 

Fifth street, between Grant and Wylie Street, 

Mount Moriah, No. 360, meet Tuesday 

Washington Hall Wood bt 5th & Virgin ay. 

Day Spring, No. 409, meet Friday 

Odd Fellows Hall, Odeon Building, Fourth St. 

Monument, No. 421, meet Monday 

Fifth Street, between Grant and Wylie Street 

Rhine, No. 424, meet Tuesday 

Washington Hall Wood bt 6th & Virgin ay, 

Geo. S. Morris, No. 431, meet Monday 

Waahington Hall, Wood bt 6th 4 Virgin ay. 

Henry Lambert, No. 476, meet Friday 

Keis' Hall, Peunsylranla Avenne. 



ALLEGHENY. 

McFarlane, No. 30, meet Thursday 

Odd Fellows Hall, cor Federal k Lacock, 

Twin City, No. 241, meet Friday 

Odd Fellows Hall. 

Robert Blum, No. 414, meet Thursday 

Odd Fellows Hail. 

Fidelia, No. 415, meet Monday 

Odd FeUows Hall- 

MANCIJESTER. 
Manchester, No. 403, meet Thursday 

BIRMINGHAM 

Birmingham, No. 48, meet Thursday 



Peter Fritz, meet 

LAWRENCEVILLE 
Lawrence, No. 460, meet Wednes^ 



TEMPERANCEVILLE 
St. Clair, No. 362, meet Wednesday 

M'KEBSFOET 
Youghiogheny, No. 364, meet Wednesday 

FREEPORT 

Freeport, No. 376, meet Saturday 

SHARPSBURGH 

Temperance, No. 453, meet Wednesday 

ELIZABETH 

Old Monongahela, No. 209, 

meet Tuesday 

PORT PERRY 

St. John's, No. 487, meet 




WEYMAN 'S. Northwest Corner Smithfleld Street and 
Diamond Alley. 1S40. 



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day Corner of Grant and Water Streets. 




DESTEOYED BY BIG EIRE APEIL 10, 1845. 





OLD NOVELTY WORKS. At Grant St. and First Ave., 1856. Burned May 9, 1873. 



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ALLEGHENY OBSERVATORY. 






FLEM'S VIEWS OY OLD PITTSBURGH. 





Piitsburgh. 



ON EIETH AVENUE IN 1S56. 
Site of Allegheny Bank and Building on each side. 




PITT'^BUEGH IN UECEMBEE l*:Sl, 





COURT HOUSE UPON COMPLETION. 1S41. 



AT THIRD AND MARKET IN 1856. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEGH. 





A POPtlLAE AND CELEBRATED PASSENGER PACKET. 1S19. 



A DOUBLE STERN-WHEELER. 1820. 




PITTSBUEGH IN 1830. 




SECOND COURT HOUSE. 
Burned March 13, 1899. 



JAMES EEES. Boat and Engine Builder. 





THE CELEBRATED "NEW OELEANS." Built by Robert Fulton. 
L. E. Livingston and Nicholas J. Roosevelt. 1811. 



Capt. Charles W. Batchelor. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEGH. 





PITTSBUEeH IN 1874. From Brownsville avenue and Gray road, now William street. Knox School on right. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




ANDREW (;AKXK(tII Vyi il Ki, and His Only Brother, 

Thomas Morrison Carnegie, Aged 10. From a Photograph 

by Cargo, Pittsburgh, 1851. Reproduced 'by Davis & 

Eielcemeyer, New York, 1908. Courtesy of David 

Homer Bates. 




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C A CARPENTER, THOMAS N. MILLER, 

WILLIAM COWLEY, JAMES R. WILSON, 
JOHN PHIPPS, ANDREW CARNEGIE, 

J. B. DORRINSTON 

special Ca„ e..=l.si.ely Co. t^e a.co»^oJaUon o»>.e Party, -in 
leave AUeBbeny Station at 7,16. A. M. 



OLD THAW BUILDING. Wood and Third Sts., where Andrew 
Carnegie learned telegraphy in the early '.50 's.' 




Date, 185 




FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEaH. 




Right Eev. ilicliael Domenec. 
Bishop of Pittsburgh. 




DESTEUGTION OF ST. PAUL'S CHUKL'H, Grant and 5th Sts. (now Avenue), May 6, 1851 




FBOM TEINITY CHURCH TOWER. Looking South Before Sky- 
scrapers Came. 1880. 



SMITHFIELD STREET, FROM OLD POSTOFFICE. 1880. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




FIFTH AVENUE AND GRANT STREET IN 1872. St. Paul's Cathedral and Episcopal Residence and McTighe 's old corner, now part the site 

of Friek building. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




'THE OLD HOME" FIRST METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH. 
On Fifth Avenue Above Smithfield. Where Francis Murphy In- 
augurated the Great Temperance Revival in 1876. 




THE OLD COURT HOUSE AFTER THE FIRE OF MAY S, 18S2 





John W. Pittoek, Newsrlealer, Fifth Ave- 
nue and Smithfield, Opposite Postoffiee. 




THE DISSOLVING COURT HOUSE. 18S3. 



U. S. GOVERNMENT BUILDING AND POSTOFFIGE, 
at Smithfield and Fifth. Erected in 1852. Abandoned 
in 1891. Site Now Occupied by Park Building. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





.IBEETY, OPPOSITE SEVENTH AVENUE. Old Union Depot in FIFTH AVENUE AND SMITHFIELD STREET IN 1890. Old Post- 
Background. 1890. office on Right. 




LIBERTY AVENUE AND SIXTH STREET. 1890. 



FIFTH AVENUE AND WOOD STREET, 1890. Looking Toward Liberty. 



PLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURGH. 







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SMITHFIELD ST. AND POURTH AVENUE, 1890. 




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1845. 



A THRILLER IN ITS DAY. 




LOOKING UP SMITHPIELD STREET FROM DIAMOND ALLEY. 
1890. 



AT THE HEAD OF THE TOW. 



FLE'M'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURaH. 











Bank Note List 







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,B/e of Pitts. par 
M^-Mamifh do 
Pitts Ex b do 

Do Post notes do 
Do exbr'' Ilotl'h do 
B Germantown do 
B of Chester co do 
do Delaware co do 
do Montgom. do 
do Doylestown do 
Frank b TVash do 
Far b Bucks co do 
B N Amer Phil do 
£ N Liberties do 
Com b Pen Phil do 
r ^-FaMech do do 
Kensington do do 
Phila b do do 

Schuylkill b do do 
Southwark b do do 
"Western b do do 
Penn tp b do do 
Mechanics h do do 
Man 4- Mec do do 
Moyamen' g do do 
Girard hk do do 
U States b do 35 
Mon J) Broivnsv 1 



OHIO. 

Bof Mt Ples'nt 2 
Fr. ii Mcch b 2 
B of St CluirsvilkZ 
Com b N Lisbon 2 
Bk of Marietta % 
Col b N L dem n 2 
Clinton b Col do 2 
Cincinnati bks 
B of drclevilte 
do Zanesville 
do Putnam 
do Wooster 
do MessiloH 
do Sandusky 
do Geauga 
do Norwalk 
da Xenei 
Dayton b 
Com b of Sciola 10 
Post notes % 

Chilicothe b 2 

Frank b Colitmb 2 
Lancaster h 12 
Bk of Hamilton 15 
Grawmlle b 40 

Com b of L.Erie 5 
Fwm b Canton 20 
Urbanna b 45 



PITTSBURGH HEADS THE LIST. 



WOOD STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE, LOOKING UP "THE 
HUMP." 1890. 




SIXTH AVENUE AND WOOD STREET, AT LIBERTY, IN 1890. 

Millvale Car on Liberty. Transverse Passenger Railway Tracks 

on Wood Street. 1890. 



THE OLD-TIME TIPPLE ON THE MONONGAHBLA. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





SECOND AVENUE FROM MARKET STREET. Looking Toward Lib- 
erty Avenue. 1893. No. 19 Engine House in Fulton Bell 
Foundry Buildings. 




WOOD STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE. Site of the Farmers' Bank. 
May, 1902. 



NEVILLE HALL, .SCHUETZ GROCERY' AND EAGLE 

ENGINE HOUSE, at Fourth and Liberty Avenues, 

Before the Wabash Came. 








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PENN AVENUE FROM CECIL ALLEY EAST, IN 1893. 



Fifth and Wood Streets. Site of Farmers 
Bank in 1863. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





CASEY'S EOW, FIFTH AVE., BELLEFIELD, 1893. 



The Old Solio Furnace. Second Avenue Above 
Brady Street. 1876. 




THE GREAT SOHO CURVE. On the Pittsburgh, Oakland and East Liberty Cable Line, 
1893, Showing manholes to get at sheaves on which cables ran. 



PLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEGH. 




WELDIN'S, BEPOEE AND AFTER THE FALL OF THE WILLEY. 

BUILDING. January 9, 1889. 

Willey Building was in rear, on Diamond Street. Blown Down in Big Wind. 





TWO CADETS AT WEST POINT. 1843. Alexander 

Hays at Right, and ' ' Sam ' ' Grant, Afterwards 

Better Known as U. S. Grant. 



JLal JLi 



WOUNDED 

BmMmMB 

ON THIS TRAIN. 



Are Invited to Come to the 



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Of the " Subsistence Committee," 

Ho. 347 Liberty St, 

Surgeons are in attendance, who wUl 
Dress your Wounds. 

FEEE MEALS AND LODGINGS. 

are provided for all Union Soldiers. 

One of tlie Committee vrill meet yon at ihe Depot, to cop- - 
duct yoQ to the Home. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURGH. 




A SUPREME COURT SITTING IN PITTSBURGH, 1868. Standing— Hons. George Sharswood and Henry W. Williams (Pittsburgh). Seated— 

Hons. Jolin M. Read, James Thompson, Daniel Agnew. 







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Old Drury Theater on Fifth Avenue. Built 
1833. Torn Down 1870. 



THE SECOND COURT HOUSE IN PITTSBURGH. On site of present building. 
Destroyed by fire May 8th, 1882. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 








* U...:fiM 




William Weltou. 



Capt. S. A. McKee. 



OLD TOWN HALL IX ALLEGHEXYTOWN. Sandusky Street. Torn 
Down 1S63. 




George P. McClelland. 




WELDIX 'S ' ' KESUKGIMUS. 



BLOCK HOUSE. ISSS. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





FREDERICK H. COLLIER 
ilonel 139tli Penna. Volunteers, Judge of Common Pleas Court No. 1, 

1870-1906. WM. B. SCAIFE. Manufacturer and Founder Wm. B. Scaife & Sons' Co. 




GOING UP THE BROWNSVILLE ROAD. South Eighteenth street, 1893. 



TLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




THE EAGLE ENGINE HOUSE. On Fourth Ave., near Liberty, m 1865. 



Vigilant Engine House. Third Avenue. 




l^'TrONBUfiDlNG 



TEADESMEN'S INDUSTKIAL INSTITUTE. South Ave., Allegheny. Instituted 

1874. First Exposition 187.5. Burned Oct. 2, 1883. Site now 

Exposition Park. 




FIRST PITTSBURGH WATER WORKS. At Du 

quesne Way and Pitt Street (now Fifth Street). 

Later Globe Plow Works. 



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THE EAGLE ENGINE. Built at Rees' shop by mechanics of the company in 1S59. Dan Haughey, master mechanic. 



FLEH'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 49 

FOBMEB WELL-KNOWN PITTSBURGHEES. All of us knew some of thera. Some of us knew all of them. 




Bemard McKeuna, Mayor 1893-1896. 





Henry P. 



Wiliiam MeCallin, Mayor 1887-1890. 




George W. English, General Agent 
Berkshire Life Insurance Company. 





James A. McKean, Postmaster 1890- 
1893. 



John H. McElroy, First Chief of Paid Fire 
Department in Pittsburg, June, 1870. 






Eobert W. Lyon, Mayor 1S81-1S84. 



William CoUingwood. 



Henry I. Gourley, Mayor 1890-1893. 



FLEM'S "\T:EWS of old PITTSBURGH. 




E. A. Moontooth, Chief Marshal Great 
Blaine Parade, 1884. 




Capt. A. L. Pearson, Co. A, 155th 
P. V. 





Major General Alexander 
U. S. A. 




Corporal Michael B. Lemon, 
Co. E, 155th P. V. 





Adjutant E. A. Montooth, 
155th P. v., 1862. 




Capt. Samuel Kilgore, Co. D, 155th 
P. v., 1863. 




General Thomas M. Howe. 



Robert W. Maekey, Politician. 



Major Joseph F. Denniston, City 
" Treasurer 1893. 



PLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





JOHX E. EIDALL, Who Intioduced the Electric Light 
Into Pittsbuiiih. ISSO. 



GEORGE BOOTH, City Clerlv and Director Department 
Public Charities. 




00. E 155TH PENNA VOLUNTEERS. Reunion 1894. Capt. Geo M. Laughlin, C. P. McKenna, E. P. Douglass, Wm. 
John White, W. H. Pang- burn, "Jimmy" O'Niel, John M. Lancaster anl others. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




Geo. P. Fulton, a Teacher. 



-'i».(i«il»yara ™'-»9!*e«Blbia5u'!'*TO«!W£MLJtt^~'^*' 1^ ^-SS^^S.Sf* 



OX CARSON STREET, SOUTH PITTSBURGH, 1S7.5. Incline Terminus 
on Hillside. 




Jolin K. Alter, a Soldier. 




POOR FARM OF UlTV UF PITTSBURGH. Opposite City Farm Statiion, B. & 0. R. R. 
The site of the Armor Plate Mills at Homestead. 





Willia/m Ramsey, Newspaper Man 
and Guardian of the Poor. 



THE OLD GEO. A. BERRY MANSION. First Pennsylvania Female College, East End, 1876 




FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




Frank Henry. 



"Shep." 






S. A. Kutledge, Preceptress. 



Lieut. John G. Bryant, 193d P. V. 





Hugh Boiee, the Old Janitor. "Professor of 
Dust and Ashes, ' ' High School, 1855-1876. 



IN THE GOOD OLD HIGH SCHOOL DAYS. 

Wallace J. Badclifif. M. A. J. Dickson. 

Heppie Wilkins. Jos. H. Montgomery. Josephine A. Sheplar. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





Eev. Jacob LaGrange Me- Rev. Daniel H. A. McLean, 
KowD, First Principal, Second Principal, 1856- 

1855-1856. 1859. 



William W. Dickson, A. M., Professor 
Mathematics, 1855-1S66. 





Horace W. Bancroft, A. M., Professor 
Mathematics, 1867-1876. 




Carlos A. Kenaaton, Professor Belle 
Lettres, 1865-1872. 



Rev. John H. Crumb, A. M. D. D., Pro- 
fessor Latin and Greek, 1868-1873. 



EVELYN M. SIMPSON, PRECEPTRESS, 1871-1891. 





B. C. JILLSON, A. M., M. D., Ph. D. Principal 
1871-1880. 
Professor Natural Sciences 1887-1899. 



CHARLES B. WOOD. 
Principal, 1880-1903. 
Professor, 1869-1880. 



HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY, 1855-1873. 




Philotus Dean, A. M., Second Principal, 1859- 

1871 Professor Natural Sbiences 1855- 

1859; Author of Dean's Arithmetics; 

Second Director of Allegheny 

Observatory. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH, 



.;5g^%^^^fe<g^^^5^>i^^' 



,\y OF THE ^^y^ 

^^T LAF'A-^'ETTE HALL, 



P K ^V Y E 14 . 

Oration OUR SOCIAL CONSTITUTION, .... Eobt. D. M'Kee. 

Essny "ALL IS VANITY," Martha A. Golem ak 

Oration ACTION, Jos. Z. Cclver. 

Ovation HOMEWARD BOUND, CnAS. C. Laxge. 

Essay THE SEEN AND UNSEEN, Maky F. Bell. 

Oration AMERICAN LIBERTY, Sajil'El W. Hill. 

m:ttsic. 

Oration THE WAY OF THE WORLD Wir. H. Mooke. 

Essay OUR ONE LIFE, Caroline Dawson. 

Oration FREEDOM OF SPEECH, Geo. W. Dithbidge. 

arxjsio. 

Essay LINKS DFLIFE&PROVIDENCE,.Hareiet M. Lewis. 

Oration GENIUS, J. H. Montgomery. 

Essay. . . " M ARK ONLY THE HOURS THAT SHINE," . . Josephine A. Sheplek. 
Oration, THERULING INCLINATION, witli VALEDICTORY, Samuel Taggart. 

>xxrsic. 



Singerlv & Myers print, 74 Tlilrd street 






THE PUPILS OF THE 
Will give a Public Exhibition 

I On Thursday Evening, July 16, 1857 



Soors open at V—Ezercises commence at 8 



byKKU.NNta 

Performed by JOSEPH L. and SAMUEL L. MILLER. 
0/irt,o„— JOHN G. BRYANT. Subject: TUe mjreli of civilizaliou. 
£»ay— MYRA M'LAUGHLIN. Sdbjeci: Lifc'.H Changes. 
Dtiet o» tlic Awaiton.— Misaea HARRIET nod K .\TE DITaRIDGE. 
£i«ii/— MABTHA S. M'MASTEp. Scbject : Kind Words. 
Oy»/.«,-JOSEPH Z. OULVERi-SOMlor; Wh.. -ue liLn. W •<b m L l Jj r 

he ^ould aot bo an American 'I 
Sisoy— HEITIE WILKINS. Subjeot; Ktening Mosinga. 

MUSIC. 
" I'm a merry, merry laughing girl," - . . . . <;i.<)V»:« 

Stmgby Misa HARRIET DITHKirOE. 
Orolion— SAMUEL TAGGART. Sdbjzct: The Union. 
Oralion—a. T. EWWQ. Subject; Life of man 

MUSIC; 
The Witohca' Gallop, - - . by HAilY E. M'LEAN 

iWy— WILLLAM H. MOOKE. Subject : Growiaj Old. 

—JOSEPH H. MONTGOMERY. SunjF.ci; Iiumortaliij. 
MUSIC: 

Air from the Trovatorc, - VEnni 

Sung by Misa MYKA M'LAUGHLlN. 

Oi-ddm.— JOHN S. FERGUSON. Sdbjeot: Progress of Civilization. 

Oradon— WALLACE J. EADCLIFFE. Subject: Modern Polylhcism. 

MUSIC; 

Le PapilloD, Etude, by Asoqeb 

Mias HARRIET DITHKIDGE. 
Vialonur — Cure for the heart-ache. ~ 

MUSI i; 
Spring Flowret, composed and performed by Prof V. i»E HAM 

Distribution of Prizes. 

- by Mr. HENRY KLEbER 



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ONE WAY OF RAISING MONEY FOR HIGH SCHOOL. 





First Public School in First Ward, Pittsburg 

North Side of Ferry Street, Between 

Fourth and Liberty. 



PITTSBURGH, END OP SMITHFIELD ST. BRIDGE IN 1836. Fiom a painting by 
Leander McCandless in possession of Col. E. Jay Allen. Bakewell's Glass House, 
at Grant and Water Sts. Old Carpet Factory, later the first South Ward School 
(now 'Second Ward School), and Judge Wilkins' Residence on left. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEGH. 



Charles Avei\ , i'liiJaiiUirupisl. 



Prof. Dean in 1862. 



7\ 








EXHIBITION 

BY PUPILS OF THE 




f hursday, Feb. 12th. 

Comiueuciug at 9 o-c3ock, P. 31. 



THE FIEST HIGH SCHOOL. 1855. Now 508-510 Smithfield Street. 



Okatio.v, V.'ALLAOS J. BADOMPF 
EssAV, JOSEPHINE A. SHKPLEK— 

MUSIC 
DBCLAMAiros, A B. liAVirr— 



MUSIC 

DiALOCUE-THE WEATHERCOCK, 

d Kcklc JAS. THOMPSON 

ismm Fickle, WA7.LA0a S. SAICLIPF 

•iefVil, SAM'LO.BROWN 

ic Barber, SAM'LTAGGAST 

MUSIC 

iSAV, MYRA J M'LAUOHLIN, 
uiio.v, SAMX TAGGART, 

MUSI 
is.iv. MARTHA A. COLEMAN, 
!cla.mat;om, C. W. GERWIu, 
iSAY, CAHOilNE DAWSON, l'«.,.ng Awij 

MUSIC 

DtALOGUL ALL FOR SOOS ORDER. 

t.o;„r<-e- G. T. BVING 

ii,L "■ >ili.\JAM'!N F F'JW'riS 

.."■c 37,v,i-, JAS. S. THUMPSOlv 

•ii .Hsrr Von Stoia, C- W GE^WIS 

;, U'Blc.rT, JCS.H. MO-N-TllOIoERv 

•:,ih .'Sjucirs, SAJFL 0. BilOWS 

""" "''■■ MUSIC 



Essj 



vIOT 



Subjcc, — A Dream 
\i Future o^ America 
rsliUon and iis Sfect, 



S. FEilG';30.V, Subicct— The ?asl, prcseol « 

Essay, E.MJIA CASE, Slibjeeif— Tsndenc; of Ihe Miod to Suoi 

OnArio.N, JAMES S THOMPSON, Subjeil— Miilobililv ot Eirthly thii 

EsiAV, SUSAN YCTOG, SubJ!ct-*-PBsl, Prasont and Fut 

OnATto.v, JOSEPH H. MONTGOMERV. Subject— Hen. 

DIALOGUE-THE DOCTOR L\ SPITE OF HIMSELF. 

Gre;ury 



Squire Robert, 
Harry, 



0. W. GERWIG 
MISS E, OASS 

JOS H. mo;;tgomery 

A. E. DAVITT 
SAM'L T.AGGAliT 
J. S. FERGirSdN 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 






'Flem," 71. 





Robert M. Cargo, Singing Teacher. 




SECOND HIGH SCHOOL. Bank of Commerce Building, Sixth Avenue 
and Wood Street. 1868-1871. 



LEONARD H. EATON. Principal Third Ward School, Alle 
gheny, 1843-1860; Forbes School, Sixth Ward, Pittsburg, 
1860-1890; First President Humane Society of West- 
ern Pennsylvania. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURaH. 





FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 





Lieut. Alfred C. Liudsay, Co. F, 13tith 
P. V. Kil'ed at Gkaneellorsville. 



Major Frank B. Wanl, 15tli I'a. Cav. 
Killed at Stoue River. 




Lieut. Joseph L. Miller, Haniptou ' 
Battery. Died of Wounds Re- 
ceived at Gettysburg. 





Capt. Wainuel Taggart, Co. 11, l:i3d 

P. v.; Co. I, lieth P. V. Killed. 

at Beams Station, Va. 




CAPT. CHAS. S. PRESTON, GO. A, 
74tli N. Y. Killed at Wappings 
Heights, Va. 



Sergeant Wm. C. Dithridge, Go. A, 74th X. Y. 
in Action of Second Bull Bun, Va. 





Cai>t. George B. U. Martin, Go. H, 

28th P. V. Died of Typhoid 

Fever at Bridgeport, Ala. 



Lieut. Ghas. J. Long, Co. D, 139th 

P. V. Died at Alexandria, Va., 

of Gamp Fever. 




Capt. C. Wes. Chapman, Go. K, 63d 
P. V. Killed at Pohiek Church, Va. 



HIGH SCHOOL BOYS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOB THEIR COUNTRY, 1861-1865. 



FliEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUHGH. 



SCHEDULE OF PITTSBURGH HIGH SCHOOL, 1869-70. 


TKiCHEBS. »:aO. j 10:16. 


11: 12. 


12:7-27. 


1:20-2:05. 


BEAN i t B. ICbct. Ex 6 


D2," HiVt'otV.! .'!!!!!!!!!!!! !2 

\2 Rhet Er 4 

bvHisto'rj-,.*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? 

>1, Eliet Ex., 7 


Nl! Aritb., Writ.'&'fntei.',!!? 
D2, ConBtituUon, 2 

N2!Arith..writ.i'ii")tei.",!!4 


A, Grammar & Geography, 1 
C2,Histoo...... ........... 

B. Heading and History, ... £ 


A i: B. Itead-g and Spell'g, . .7 
N2, Reading,.. i 

Nl, Reading.. ..i !!!!6 





A -R r W •tP9Smiiiitp 


, ., _ - 


D Draw 1 








. jsis'ir'^- ■■■■■■==■■■ ?SS-"=-:-J 


A, Greek, and Stiuly l 

Nl, Arith.,TVrit. & Intel.,..? 

m', " •■ ■■ :!3 

N2. .A 

C, Spelling and Eeadiug...G 
Dl*; A, Study .1 


Nl^Gramroar'^^'^'^' 7 










Dl, Algebra, 2 

Nl, Spelliug i Geography, 7 

D3, AJgebra....: 3 

N2, Spelling & Geography, i 
D2 &B, Study 1 








B, Xatural PhlioBopby 

D2, Becding and Spelliug, 2 


Dl. Arith..Writ. fc iiitei....I 


C. Study I 


}g||r';E;if 


C. Greek, and Study 1 

A, Matliematics, G 

DI, Algebra. 2 

Nl, SpeUinRaudUiBtory,..7 
D3. Algebra, .....S 


B,^atu^alScienw! 5 

A, Greek, and Study 1 

Nl, Arith., Writ. & Intel.,. .7 

D2, ..2 

D3. _■■ _'_■ - ..£ 


A, Natural ijcience, G 

Nl, Grammar ', 

D3.Latin .'!!!.'.'!!!!!!: 

Da, Algebra i 

c,"st^dy,!!!:!!!!!!!!!!.'!!!i 


A. Beile'a" Lettrea! !!!!!!!.*! 'A 
CI, Mathematlce 6 

B. Natural Philoaophy,!!!!5 
Dl, Reading and SpeUiug, 2 
D3, Grammar S 


i.'!!^.'.!'..!^..:...:d3. Study 1 02 ts, study, : i 


Dl 4: A. Study I 


£ 






Ni^l.f'iCHfe!:? 




Hl'TLEDGE,'.'!! 








ui " !^ !!.".■;!!.■;.■;; lis 


A, Mathematics, ( 

Dl, Algebra, i 

Nl, Spelling & Geography, 7 

D3. Algebra, 3 

N2, SpeUiug & Geography, i 


B, Mathematics C 


CI. Matheraatice 6 


DI, Arith.. Writ, i intei.. . . 1 










' 


D3.8tady 1 




Dl &A. Study 1 


C, Study 1 ■ 


DEAN, 












KEN ASTON,.... 
OEUMB,. ..!'.';; 

rutledge'.' ! '. 




B, Greek, and Study ] 

A. MathetnaticE 6 

Dl. Algebra, 2 

Kl, Spelling and History,..' 

D3. Algebra, 3 

N2, Spelling and History, , .4 
D2 &B. Study 1 


A.Greek, and Study, 1 

0, Reading and SDelUng,...6 
Dl & A. Study. 1 






ob. study.'.!*.'.'.!!.'.'".".".'."!] 


B, Mathematics 6|C1. Matheraatice, 6 


Dl, Arith., Writ &InteL,..l 

N2, Grammar i 

C. Study 1 


D, 1, 2, 3, (Gents.) aeog.,..3 
D, I, 2, 3. (LadieB) " ..3 





Fifth Avenue and Wood Street, 1876, 

First National Bank, and General 

Office W. U. Tel. Co. 



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Breading Speer, Professor of Physios, and 
Head of Fulton Street School, 1885-1897. 




FIRST DIPLOMA ISSUED BY PITTSBUEaH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, 1859. 



Old LaTvrenppville .Academy, on Butler Streel 
Above Fortieth, 1868. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBTT-RGH. 




Daniel C. Holmes, Principal Franklin 
School, 1847-18S3. 



FIRST FRANKLIN SCHOOL, Sixth Ward, Pittsburgh, in 1830. On Franklin Street, Below Logan. 




REUNION OP FIBST CLASS GRADUATED FROM A PUBLIC SCHOOL. 1850. The Sixth Ward, Pittsburgh, now FrankJin 

rp TIT- School. 

.,i°Pr"3 .^^f,^''.^*"?' 'W^iUiam Mcaelland, Thomas Armor. Middle— Alfred Whitehead, John Neely, Lucian Livingston 

Alfred Wright, William G. Armor, William P. T. Jope, William G. Price. Lower— Oliver P. Scaife, John D. McFarland 
George W. Jope, Dr. J. Guy McCandless, Henry Kirk White. James B. Seott, 



FLEM'S VIEWS OE OLD PITTSBURGH. 




FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEGH. 




PEANKLi.\ SrHUUL, I'lTTfSBlTKGH, Fianldin Htroet, below Logan. Tom 
down, 1890. 





Dauiel C. Hohnes, Principal Franklin 
School, in His Later Years. 




James li. Xewe'-i, J'riiicipal A'orth 
School and Newell 's Academv. 



OLD NORTH SCHOOL. Fourth Ward, Pittsburgh, at Penn Avenue and 
Cecil Alley, 1870. 





PITT TOWXSHIP SCHOOL NO. 2. Afterwards Oakland Township 
School in the Curve on Fourth Street Koad, Above Soho. 



D. M. Skinner, Principal Pitt Town- 
ship School No. 2, at Oakland. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBTTRGH. 




Trof. Snyder 



JEFFERSON COLLEGE AT CANONSBUEG IN 1850. Where many noted Pittsburgers received their College Training. 




CANONSBUEG IN 1850. 



PLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBTTRGH. 





REV JOHN M 'MILL AN 'S LOG ACADEMY, CANONSBUEG. Date of 

Opening, About 1782. FIRST COLFAX SCHOOL. Twenty second Ward. About 1868. 




REV. CHARLES C. BEATTY, D.D. 
Presbyterian Divine. 



Rev. John McMillan, D. D., Founder of Jef- Rev. E. J. Breckenridge, President of Jeffer- 

ferson C'ollege. Fon College. A Noted Presbyterian Divine. 





OLD BANK OF FITi'SBURGH, Third Avenue front. 



THE WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. On Third 

Street (now Avenue), at Cherry Alley, in 1840. Burned 

April 10, 1845, in Big Fire. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBUEGH. 




William H. Slack, Singing Teacher. 



Miss Rachel A. Erwin, Teacher 1849- 
1865. 



Bobert D. McGonnigle, Pupil. 



FLBM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 








LT. COL. RICHARD C. DALE 116th Pa. Vol. Missing at 
• Spottsj'lvaiiia. 



CAPT. JACOB J. VAXDEliLiKlFT. Uil I'rodiiffv ;ukI i 4,11 iliM 



J." =e{<ss55,,i;>3»» 





William Bagaley, Leading Merchant, 




AMKRTCAN" IROX WORKS. 1S76. 
(Jones & Laughlins.) 



Fifth Avenue, Union Street and Liljerty Ave- 
nue, 1888. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBT;:^ 







Til BIOLOGICAL SEMINARY ON CLOSER VIEW. Burued Jan, 23, lSo4. 




THOS. S CLARKE, of Clarke 
& Thaw, canal boat owners. 




Rev. JI. W. Jacobus, Presbyteriau 
Divine. 




On Sniithfield Street, Near Virgin Alley, 1876. OLD P1TTSBURC4H FEMALK COLLKGE. Hancnci! St., now Eighth. Bnrnerl May '\ ISOl. 




THE FIRST CARNEGIE LIBRARY IN SCHENLEY PARK. 











FLEM'S VIEWS' OF OLD PlTTSBtJRGS; 




OLD w\SHIj^G^o^ tollege 



PRESBYTERTAX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND SEMINARY 
HTLL (MONITMENT HILL). 1840. 




OLD SEVENTH WARD SCHOOL At Green, Linton and Duncan Streets (now Eleventh Ward, Pittsburg). 

Abandoned in 186.8. 





HIGHLAND SCHOOL, 19th WARD, 1S70. 



LINCOLN SCHOOL, 21st WARD, 1S7U. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PiTTSBTJEGfi. 




PANORAMA OP RUINS, JULY 23, 1S77. Reduced fiom a Wood Cut made from a sketch 
by John W. Alexaiidei at the time 






•XIOX STATION. Erected After the Eiots. "Ten 
porary ' ' for Twenty-three Years. 



LOOKl.XU DOWN LIBERTY ST., 4 P. M., Sunday, July 1-, 1S77. From a sketch by 
Martin B. Leisser at the time. 





WILLIAM C. McCarthy, Mayor of 
Pittsburgh, 1866-68, 1875-78. 



BUENING OF THE EOUND HOUSE at 28th St., Saturday, July 21st, 1877. Midnight. 
From a sketch by John Donaghy. 




or General Alfred L. Pearson, N. G. P. 
1877. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBUEGH. 




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AROUND THE EUINS OF THE SHOPS AT TWEN- 
TY-SEVENTH STREET. July 23, 1877. 



DEVASTATION AT SHOPS. Twenty-seventli Street. 
July 23, 1877. 




OFFICERS OF CO. D. 1ST. PENNA. VOLUNTEERS OP 1S77. 



Merritt BatchploT, Captain, Center. 
Brown, 2nd Lieut. 



Samuel W. Church, 1st Lieut. (R) Wm. J. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBUEGH. 





ALONG THE TRACKS LOOKING CITYWAED, July 
1877. 




IN SOUND 11UU«£ iiUINS. July 23, 1877. From 
Photo. 



DEVASTATION AT SHOPS. Twenty-seventh Street. 
23, 1877. From Photo. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBTJEGH. 



77 




OLD SIXTH ST. BRIDGE. 1888. A beautiful Suspension Bridge built by John A. 
Eoebling. Opened for travel in 1860. Eebuilt 1892. 




THE WESTERN PENITENTIARY ON WEST COMMON, ALLE- 
GHENTTOWN. Built 1826. Torn Down 1887. 





P. C. DEAN, 
of Taylor & Dean. 




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Semple s Afteiwaid Kenj on s Ptleral 
Street, Allegheny 




WESTERN PENITENTIAEY IN ALLEGHENY. Ohio Street, West 
Park, 1880. 



PITTSBURGH PETROLEUM EXCHANGE. Fourth 
Avenue Below Smithfield Street. 1886. 



78 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 




PITTbBURGH E^D OF THE OLD SIXTH S PRE HI B1;1U(_tE. 18Sn. 













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THREE OF A KIND: Montooth, Pearson and MeKenna. IS 





MBS. JAN I (.i;l.\ s\\Lssli]]LM Ensl \.\\si.ii»i 
Wi.man, and DaughtPi. 1^5.-1 




OLD BBLLEPIELD CHURCH. Filth Avenue and Bellefield Avenue. GETTING READY TO BELAY TRACKS. July 24, 1877. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 



79 



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BATTERY B AT MT. GRETNA. 1S87 




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OLD MASONIC HALL. 
On Site of Present Masonic Temple on Fifth Ave. Destroyed by Fire August, 1887. 



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MeKEES ROCKS IN 1876. The eelebrated Indian Mound in right corner. Lower end of Brunot's Island at right and 
new Penitentiary at Woods Run in background. 




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SOUTH FORK LAKE BEFORE THE DISASTER OF MAY 31, 1889. Club House in left and re.ar. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. 



©QDRor^'l) §hoe, 



THE 



^tmU WnUv MUtn, 



i^RE GOOO SHOES. 



Wear Well, Look Well, Fit Well. 



Men's Shoes only $3.50 and $4.00 values. 



532 SMITHFIELD STREET. 



ESTABLISHED 186.5 



THE R. & W. JENKINSON CO. 

MAKERS OF 

PITTSBURGH STOGIES 

Liberty and Twelfth Streets, 

PITTSBURGH, PA. 
Visitors to Factory always Welcome. 



ROBERT J. STONEY, 

lankpr nnh Mrakn. 

Member Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. 

424 riF-xH ave:nue:_ 
Publisher ofthe banker. 



FOR DOMESTIC USE, 

FOR HOTELS, COLLEGES, 

SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, 

WORKSHOPS, DEPOTS 

and wherever PURE WATER is desired for Drinking, Bathing or 
Culinary Purposes. 

MANUFACTURED BY 

Wm. B« Scaife & Sons Co. 

(Established 1S02.) 

PITTSBURGH, PA. 



^ E. MASTER & CO. 

BROKERS 

323 Fourth Avenue, Vandergift Building. 

I New i'ork Stock Exchange. 

- Boston Stock Excha,nge. 
..-...___-. (.Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. 
MLMBtHSs ; Chicago Stock Exchange. 

< Chicago Board of Trade. 

( New York Metal Exchange. 

Our Ov^'ti Exclusive Ne'VN' York Wire. 



ESTABLISHED .1842 

Pittsburgh Iron and Wire Works. 

TAVLOR 8c DEAN, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Ornamental Iron and Wire Work 

Artistic Grill Work in Iron and Brass 

Fencing, Cresting, Iron Stairs, Iron Beds, Stable Fittings, Iron 

Shutters and Cellar doors. Elevator Enclosures, Nursery 

Fenders, Fire Guards, Riddles and Sieves, Wire Door 

and Window Screens, and all kinds of Brass and 

Iron Wire Cloth. 

Automatic Elevator Gates 
Automatic Fire Extinguishers 



riPE ESCAPES 



OFFICE AND Works, 
201 TO 205 MARKEZT ST. 

PITTSBURGH, PA. 



FLEM'S VIEWS OP OLD PITTSBURGH. 




SITE OF PICKERINGS, 1856, 

PENN AND WAYNE STREETS, 

NOW PENN AVENUE AND TENTH STREET. 



IT IS BIGGER NOW. 

IS^JJF CED. IS'TJ'F CED„ 

Your Credit is Good at 

PICKERINGS. 



W. A. SOMERS, President 
L. S. Clarke, Vice Pres. 



F. K. FiTLER, Treasurer 
W. T. Todd, Secretary 



SOMERS, FITLER & TODD CO. 

FOR CONTRACTORS, MILLS, MINES, FOUNDRIES, 
FURNACES, BREWERIES, RAILROADS and STEAMBOATS. 

323-25-27 Water St., 320-22-24-26 First Ave. 

Private Telephons Exchange. 



EGUE & LaINGER 



SPECIALTY IN 

TOUPEES 

AMD FINE 

STREET WIGS 



Bell Phone 4531 Court 
P. & A. Phone 4171-M 

BEFORE 

No. lOOS ARROTT BUILDING 

Cor. ^th Ave. & Wood St, PITTSBURG, PA. 





Most Engravings in this book are work of 



S^lmnr^ lEngrautng Qln. 



H A,LK TONE^ 
ZINC ETCHINGS 



PHOTO 
ENGRANKRS 



5th Floor Arrott Power Building, 

BARKER PLACE, PITTSBURGH, PA. 



PITTSBURGH 

BREWING CO. 

Capital, $12,950,000.00 

OWN AND OPERATE THE FOLLOWING WELL-KNOWN 
PITTSBURGH BREWERIES: 



Iron City 
Keystone 
Wainwright 
Bauerlein 



Eberhart & Ober 
Phoenix 
Straub 
Winter 



Annual Capacity 1,000,000 Barrels. 




THE SIGN 

OK 

GOOD BEER 




W^Bt^rti ^amngB nnh ipjioBtt lank. 



531 SMITHFIELD ST. 



Capital Stock paid in, 
Surplus and Undivided Profits, 



$250,000.00 
$323,472.00 



We pay 4 per cent. on Saving Accounts 
2 per cent on Checking Accounts 

OHN DIMUNG, President FRED. FICHTEL, Vice Pres. 

. B. DEMMLER, Vice Pres. CHAS. E. SCHUETZ, Cashier 

CLARENCE L. SIEBERT, Ass't. Cashier 



A. L. Sailor, President F. E. Proctor, Manager 

E. B. KiMBERLY, Sec'y. & Treas. 

TAILORING AS AN ART HAS REACHED 
THE HIGHEST EXCELLENCE WITH THE 

A. L. SAILOR COMPANY 

430 and 432 Wood Street, 

PITTSBlfRGH, PA. 
See Sailor and be Satisfied. 



THEY'RE MADE TO EAT; 

THEY'RE GOOD AND SWEET 

ALL PRAISE THEM TO THE SKIES, 

FOR REALLY GOOD SOUND WHOLESOME FOOD 

USE DUSENBERRY'S PIES 

A "FLEM" AD. OF 1895, 

IT'S GOOD YET. SO ARE THE PIES. 



ASK YOUR GROCEIR 



FLEM'S VIEWS OF OLD PITTSBURGH. - '. ^„_ _ / 

OCT 3 1908 J 

Vi' 

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J. M. GUFFEY 

Producer of 

Petroleum l Natural Gas 

PITTSBURGH, PA. 



J. F. ATCHESON, President. F. W. McELROY, Treasurer. 

SHAW 

COAL COMPANY 



MUSTERS i^ISTD SHIPPERS OE 

PITTSBURGH COAL 

GENERAL OFFICE, 405 FOURTH AVENUE. 

P. O, Box 429, Mines at Midway, Pa. 

(P. C. C. St L.R. R.) 

Bell Telephone 1299 Court Acreage 4000. Daily Capacity 3000 Tons. 

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